Ancient board games in perspective :  papers from the 1990 British Museum colloquium, with additional contributions / 
 Ancient board games 
edited by I.L. Finkel. 
 - London :  British Museum Press,  ©2007. 
 - vi, 281 pages :  illustrations ;  31 cm 
<br/><br/> "In September 19990, a three-day colloquium entitled Board Games in the Ancient World took place in the British Museum"--Page 1. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Board games in perspective: an introduction /  Homo ludens: the earliest board games in the Near East /  The royal game of Ur /  On the rules for the royal game of Ur /  The Egyptian game of senet and the migration of the soul /  The game of hounds and jackals /  The Egyptian 'game of twenty squares': is it related to 'marbles' and the game of the snake? /  Board games and their symbols from Roman times to early Christianity /  Inscribed imperial Roman gaming-boards /  Notes on pavement games of Greece and Rome /  Late Roman and Byzantine game boards at Aphrodisias /  Graeco-Roman pavement signs and game boards: a British Museum working typology /  Game boards at Vijayanagara: a preliminary report /  Horse coins: pieces for da ma, the Chinese board-game 'driving the horses' /  An introduction to board games in late imperial China /  Go in China /  The beginnings of chess /  Grandmasters of shatranj and the dating of chess /  Changing cultures: the reception of chess into western Europe in the Middle Ages /  Board games in central Asia and Iran /  Board games and backgammon in ancient Indian sculpture /  Notes on the early history of the backgammon family in China /  A late eleventh-century tabulae set from Gloucester /  A brief history of backgammon and the design of the board /  An overview of mancala rules and variations /  The typological spread of the game of mancala /  Mancala game boards as African emblems of status /  The pursuit of hnefatafl /  Rithmomachia, the philosophers' game: an introduction to its history and rules /  Robert Stewart Culin and New World games /  Irving L. Finkel --  St John Simpson --  Andrea Becker --  Irving L. Finekl -- Mehen: the ancient Egyptian game of the serpent /  Timothy Kendall -- Were there gamesters in pharaonic Egypt? /  W.J. Tait --  Peter A. Piccione --  A.J. Hoerth --  Edgar B. Pusch --  Anita Rieche --  Nicholas Purcell --  R.C. Bell --  Charlotte Roueché --  R.C. Bell and C.M. Roueché --  John M. Fritz and David Gibson --  Joe Cribb --  Andrew Lo --  John Fairbairn --  Michael Mark --  R.D. Keene --  Richard Eales --  Grigori L. Semenov --  Micaela Soar --  Andrew Lo --  I.J. Stewart --  Malcolm J. Watkins --  L. Russ --  Philip Townshend --  R.A. Walker --  Ian Riddler --  Jurgen Stigter --  Bonita Freeman-Witthoft --  Preface --  Notes on the contributors --  Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780714111537 0714111538 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^2008353042 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA881661  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>013813663  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Board games--History.<br/>Board games<br/>Altertum.<br/>Brettspiel.<br/>Altertum<br/>Brettspiel
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Ancient board games 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>History<br/>Kongress--London--1990.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GV1312  / .A53 2007 N370.8  / F77 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>794.0901